Shift Improver
Gone are the days of pulling your transmission to put in a shift kit or a bigger stall converter. With today's electronic transmissions you can accomplish the feel and the better shifting of a shift kit without even loosening 1 bolt. With the aid of a hypertech programmer the shift points of your transmission can be changed to keep your truck from shifting when it is in its power band. A popular mod with automatic transmission is to install a B&M shift improver. This was designed to be installed on trucks for towing trailers. This makes the truck stay in the gear a little longer to build more pressure in the line before its shifts. This pressure makes the transmission shift harder and does away with the slack between gears. This is used by S10s to better the performance of the transmission. The faster your truck changes gears the better. Slack means your not pulling. The shift improver only needs two wires to work. The shift improver taps onto two of your computer wires under the hood. In the picture below you can see where the improver taps to and where we put our controller. The controller will allow you to set how hard you would like your truck to shift. The settings are stock, mild, and hard. In the hard position you will bark second gear with stock tires. One down side to this system is that it does not work on the newer trucks. The 2001+ years will just have to wait until B&M comes out with a new one. The system only cost about $35 and is great mod for the money. Its a great mod and anyone can do it.
